Question
In response to one of this philosopher’s ideas, Samuel Johnson kicked a stone and proclaimed, “I refute it thus.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this tar-water-peddling philosopher who argued that primary qualities were relative and therefore mind-dependent. This thinker wrote that “to be is to be perceived.”
ANSWER: George Berkeley
[10e] Berkeley’s later works arguing against primary qualities built on his “new theory of [this faculty],” which rejected the views of earlier optics theories and held that spatial depth was invisible to this sense.
ANSWER: vision [accept eyesight; accept An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision]
[10h] In his Principles and Dialogues, Berkeley put forth this argument whose name was coined by Andre Gallois. This argument asks the reader to imagine trees in a park or books in a closet to deny mind-independent objects.
ANSWER: master argument
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 75% | 50% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 17.27 | 82% | 73% | 18% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 70% | 60% | 10% |